365 Paintings in 365 Days #64

Daybreak in Venice
18x24 inches.
Oil on canvas.

Learning Points

1. Broken color. using color on purpose/intentionally/without changing it. Applied paint in shapes and left it
2. Altering my image. I change quiet a bit from the ref photo, but left the bird in...it was in the photo and I loved it.
3. Soft and hard edges. The bird is very soft as it is moving a farther away, and it draws attention to that edge of the canvas just because it is a bird; I did not want you to get stuck there.
The hard eges on the boats are really not as hard as they look; they were blended into the water.
4. I transitioned the water from dark to light and more saturation to less as you go further away.
5. Water reflections, this was fun! Like painting shiny objects, just paint what you see, if it is not exact it will not matter, you are the only one seeing the reflection; this is especially true with a live setting, just by moving will change what you see, you just need to make sure it is distorted, but the colors and shapes are there, but most importantly the contrast.
6. Leaving things out. It may look like there are a lot of poles on the left side of the painting, but I did not paint them; just the tops and a few lines.
7. Dragging paint. The shadow on the white (not actually white it is grey) front of the boat are made by very lightly dragging blue paint across the light grey.